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| The Petit Appetit Cookbook: Easy, Organic Recipes to Nurture Your Baby and Toddler | 
 enlarge | Author: Lisa Barnes
Publisher: HP Trade
Category: Book
List Price: $17.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  60 reviews
Sales Rank: 2460
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 288
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.2
Dimensions (in): 9 x 7.4 x 0.9
ISBN: 1557884536
Dewey Decimal Number: 641.5622
EAN: 9781557884534
ASIN: 1557884536
Publication Date: March 1, 2005
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Product Description
Fresh, wholesome meals that give little mouths something to smile about...
In The Petit Appetit Cookbook, mother and professional cook Lisa Barnes offers a healthy all-organic alternative to commercially processed, preservative-filled foods to help create delicious menus, nurture adventurous palates, and begin a lifetime of positive eating habits for children.
Includes:
- 150+ easy, fast, child-tested recipes for ages 4 months to 4 years
- Mealtime solutions for even the most finicky eaters
- Nutritional information for each recipe
- Time-saving cooking techniques
- The right age- and stage-appropriate food choices
- How and when to introduce solids to baby's diet
- Adapting family recipes for young children
- Recognizing signs of food allergies and intolerances
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| Customer Reviews: Read 55 more reviews...
 Raising a future "foodie" March 6, 2006
52 out of 53 found this review helpful
I've had a chance to make zucchini and butternut squash purees for my 6 month-old and so far so good! I like that the recipies give you an option for how to cook each recipie, for example, you can either steam or microwave zucchini. Also, you can use a blender or food processer for most dishes. The book also gives really clear instructions for saving food for later. I put the squash in ice cube trays; it is so easy to pop a "cube" into the microwave. If you have an automatic ice maker and don't have any ice cube trays on hand, I highly recommend buying silicone trays. You can even buy pink ones from Sur La Table (www.surlatable.com). Cubes come out cleanly with no fragments left in the tray. Get this cookbook if you want a little work on the weekend with the rest of the week as easy as opening a jar! The only down side I can think of is she is not as explicit about foods to avoid because of allergies or nitrates (spinach, carrots, etc.) on the recipe pages.
Easy and informative April 30, 2006
52 out of 53 found this review helpful
I bought this book along with Baby Blender Food, and I really like this one the best. It has practical information RE: safe food handling, the meaning behind nutritional and organic terms on product packaging, suggestions for stocking your pantry, and ideas about how to incorporate meals for the family from the recipes for the baby. It's not rocket science, but sometimes I get caught up in the baby food process and don't think about how to modify some of the ingredients for my own meal. She also has a helpful key that lists vegetarian, vegan, gluten-free recipe options. The recipes are pretty simple, and I've found that it's easy and fun to make food for my son. It also feels really good to know exactly what's going into his food. I like the layout of the book, and I appreciate the information in it. Another review mentioned that she doesn't outline food hazards like nitrates in the body of the recipes, but if you read the book from the beginning, she has pretty comprehensive explanations of what is safe to prepare and when it's safe to prepare it.
 Hideous, Pretentious Codswallop. January 30, 2008
43 out of 88 found this review helpful
I knew I was in trouble with this book by page 14, when it starts listing STUFF you need to have in order to cook. By page 29, when the author is gabbling about dancing with your toddler in the kitchen and having them "help" you cook, it's too late. You realize you've purchased a LIFESTYLE book. Not just any lifestyle book, one that promotes a lifestyle best suited to the six figure income and up crowd, and for mothers who are obsessed, neurotic, or insane.
One: The kitchen is not a place for dancing, playing, hanging out, or anything else, with small children. All the major injuries I received as a child under three were kitchen related, ergo, as soon as my son becomes mobile I plan to encase my kitchen in heavily reinforced chicken wire. If he wants to dance, learn manners, or engage in social activities, he can do it well out of the way of huge knives and hot things and glass bits.
Two: My kitchen has quite enough "stuff" in it, being as it's not a stadium sized chef-style...thing...from the pages of Home Digest. It is, in fact, what my mother and I term a one-behind kitchen, and most of America has one exactly like it. There is no space for another spoon, let alone five separate cutting boards and a food mill or "moulis" or any other French Food Twaddler. If it can't be done with a blender, it doesn't need to be done for an infant.
Three: I categorically refuse to serve "Baked Ricotta Cake" (page 144) or "Portobello Burgers" (page 214) to anyone not yet old enough to order an appropriate Zinfandel to go with them. Perhaps you live on a portobello mushroom farm, have lots of portobello mushrooms lying about the place, and feeding the family grossly expensive mushrooms makes economic sense to you. However, in my house we have something called a "food budget".
This book is a shining example of the horrific competitive parenting tripe I see at every turn. If your idea of good parenting is a $40,000 pre-school, by all means, this is the lifestyle learning experience for you. I'll be in the kitchen mashing homegrown carrots with a fork, thanks.
A must-have! May 8, 2006
41 out of 42 found this review helpful
I borrowed this book from my local library, to test a few of the recipes. I am very impressed! Every recipe that I've tried has turned out absolutely delicious! The book begins with an informative section about the meanings behind the buzz word "organic," and the recipes are neatly organized according to age (in case one needs a guideline). The author has even included little labels that point out which recipes are vegan, vegetarian, and allergy friendly.
As a very picky mom with little patience for recipes that take too long/don't turn out, I highly recommend this book and have purchased my own copy. The recipes are not only delicious, they are easy and pretty foolproof! And nothing can top the feeling I get when watching my little boy hungrily gulp down a meal I prepared just for him....eager for each spoonfull. The recipes aren't just yummy for babies either......I made some of the recipes for my teenage sisters, and they ate every last bite! If you purchase this book, you won't be disappointed!
 Overall Disappointment July 16, 2007
40 out of 47 found this review helpful
I did not find this book particularly helpful. I was disappointed and surprised by the contradictions I found in this book. For example the author clearly states, "Never feed a child less than one year honey". However, in a recipe that she claims is appropriate for a 9-12 month old baby, she lists honey as one of the ingredients. The author lists several foods under "Foods To Avoid" like wheat, soy, and egg whites because they are potential allergens. However, these ingredients are used liberally in her recipes (for babies as young as 6 months) and there is no recommendation or instructions on how to introduce these potential allergens to your baby singly before you serve it to him/her in a complex recipe.
These contradictions make me question the rest of the instructions and advice in this book. The author has no medical or dietetic background (at least none listed in the "About the Author" section). There is also a lack of citations from medical professionals.
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